To think you should be able to sue your mum if you weren't breastfed

[Richocet]

and have suffered health consequences that could have been prevented by breastfeeding?

In fact not only are you not going to change anyone's opinion, you are having the opposite effect of making breastfeeding more and more unappealing.

nobody likes a preacher

This is AIBU though, isn't it. It was the question I thought if after a chain of thoughts. It's meant rhetorically, really. As in, should we be accountable, and are our reasons for choosing a particular feeding method justifiable?

Those that have gone on to pick flaws in practicalities really should take life less seriously.

That's rubbish ricochet just because a baby is ff does not mean they go through the night. My dd used to wake up every 2 hours when she was a baby. Yes I was very in tune with her every rustle or sniff I would wake up and same with ds (7weeks). I cannot sleep deeply.

oh the irony

Great for you piglet.

Its not about mainstream views. Its about expressing you views in a way that doesn't cause massive offensive.

Had you posted " Should you be able to sue your PCT for providing crap breastfeeding support to women" then you might have acheived a proper debate but no you just wanted to put the boot into mum's who for whatever couldn't or didn't bf.

The irony?

Do you think I actually would advocate someone suing their own mother?!

Do you actually think this was a serious proposal.

Have no fear.

"just wanted to put the boot in"

Yes this was exactly my intention.

Great for you piglet

I thought you were the one who thought you were being so reasonable? What an utterly childish response. You had no credibility before and now you have even less, if that is possible.

Your OP certainly did not imply that you thought the question was rhetorical based on a train of thoughts. You asked if you were unreasonable in thinking that people ought to be able to sue if they weren't breastfed by their mothers. You have been told emphatically that yes, you are being unreasonable.

I sat there thinking 'hmm, how can I annoy/upset a load of strangers on the internet today? That'll give me some kicks, for sure!"

But you didn't seem to care about the hurt you caused to the women on here by suggesting that they were in some way inadequate parents who should be made to pay for parenting decisions.

Its not about how serious you thought you were, its about the pain you caused others as you rode roughshod over them on your hobby horse.

So... I breastfeed: Good
Both my babies were in their own rooms from 8 weeks: bad
Sometimes I drink coffee and I breastfeed.
I like to drink wine and I breastfeed.
George Osborne makes my milk sour: bad?

    Does this make me better or worse than an evil, selfish, lazy witch who ffs?

I meant it, great for you. It's not to say its the case for everyone though? This has been proven

I sat there thinking 'hmm, how can I annoy/upset a load of strangers on the internet today? That'll give me some kicks, for sure!

Sadly I think there may well be a grain of truth in this!

Reported on what grounds?

If it's because you suspect me of being a troll then you will get nowhere.

If I were a troll, then yes, but I am not, so no.

Is there anything you feel you could be doing better in your parenting? You have a very reflective attitude towards the practices of other parents and you have asked questions of them, such as when you asked why one poster upthread didn't express when her baby was in the SCBU.

What could you be doing better?

kayano I am also fucking angry and i havent lost a baby but couldnt breast feed due to having a mastectomy at 27 My last baby who is now 13 months was born with a cleft palate thus could not be breast fed even if id had the equipment to do so. Some people cannot think outside their own selfish little world.
I often wonder what bf obsessives find to do wih themselves when they finally stop feeding even if that is at about aged 8.

so what was your intention then Richocet?

I was curious Ariel.

What could I do better...? The list is endless, most probably, but this is a thread about breastfeeding.

So should your dc sue you then for the other mistakes you have just admitted to??

You were curious? Well you have had your answers I think.

Now why don't you go and attend to your children now? Have a lovely weekend with them instead of worrying about how other people feed theirs.

Ledkr- I'm sorry to hear that, and for you, obviously formula is a life saver. You do the best with what you are given. The vast majority of women can bf, but they don't, this is not doing the best with what you are given.

I've had my own struggles with breastfeeding, and it's been bloody hard, as are alot of things when you have child, it didn't give me an excuse to not do my best though.

do you feel that more women will now be breasfeeding because of this thread?

was that the point?
to educate and inform?